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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Highsmith, Patricia
1921 - 1995
Patricia Highsmith was an American author born in Fort Worth, Texas, as Mary Patricia Plangman. Both parents were artists...
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Innes, Hammond
1913 - 1998
Pseudonym used by the British novelist Ralph Hammond-Innes who was born in Horsham, Sussex, to Scottish parents. He...
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Uhnak, Dorothy
1930 - 2006
Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the...
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Egholm, Elsebeth
1960 -
The Danish author Elsebeth Egholm was born in Nyborg and grew up in Lisbjerg. Her parents owned a garden centre and rented...
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